Boris Epshteyn - Trump advisor is Russian. Wait, what?

Boris Epshteyn - it is remarkable that Trump campaign has a guy on CNN and other places representing Trump when the guy was born in Moscow. Optics. He reinforces the whole Trump - Putin connection. This guy has a bit of an accent. Reminds me of Vince Vaughn (apologies to VV).

Born in Russia, emigrated to US in 1993.

Parents Anna Shulkina and Aleksandr Epshteyn of Princeton, N.J. His mother is a real estate agent in Princeton at an office of Long & Foster. His father works in New Providence, N.J., as a project manager in the wireless unit of Alcatel-Lucent, the French telecommunications company.

2004 Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service cum laude

2007 Georgetown University Law Center - Wrote articles for Georgetown Journal of International Law. (looking for them)

Licensed as Attorney in New York and New Jersey.

Worked for big law - Milbank for about 1.5 years but took leave to work on McCain Palin campaign.

Communications Aide with the McCain-Palin campaign - was based in Arlington and Anchorage, Alaska. Sounds like key role was to help Palin with rapid response.

2013 - moderated NYC conference panel called “Invest in Moscow!” Panelists were Moscow city government officials, like Sergey Cheremin, a city minister who heads Moscow’s foreign economic and international relations department.

Epshteyn says Russia did not seize Crimea -- follows Russian government’s narrative

-- see www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-advisers-russia-ties_us_57acd474e4b007c36e4db94c

In 2009 Boris married Lauren Gorlin Tanick, the daughter of Cathy Gorlin and Marshall Tanick of Golden Valley, Minn.,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/fashion/weddings/29tanick.html?_r=0

Met at Georgetown

Lauren worked for Google as advertising sales manager Father is lawyer in MN- Mansfield, Tanick & Cohen. Mother is a partner in MN law firm of Best & Flanagan

In 2009 - wedding announcement says vice president for business and legal affairs with West America Securities, an investment banking firm in Las Vegas.

Now works for TGP Securities, Inc. of Summit NJ -- Managing Director of Business and Legal Affairs